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...that Bruce Smith (pictured) was the only member of the first Parliament of Australia to oppose the White Australia Policy?
...that George Crichton's death in 1544 initiated a decade long quarrel over the position of Bishop of Dunkeld until the appointment of his nephew, Robert Crichton?
...that The Log from the Sea of Cortez documents a trip taken by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts around the Gulf of California, but neither is mentioned by name in the book?
...that as part of a publicity stunt, the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin?
...that the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka?
...that Anne Lynch Botta (pictured) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to literary society at her receptions?
...that German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art, and painted church frescoes in Greece, Austria, Germany, England, and Russia?
...that Emil Calmanovici, the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding?
...that the performance of "Romeo" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, was the first time that a drag queen or any other sexual minority had been openly visible onstage at Eurovision?
...that 2007 Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video?
...that four artillery submarines were among many uncompleted U-boat projects planned by Nazi Germany?
...that Saint Reineldis (pictured) is commonly depicted in art being dragged by the hair by Huns?
...that the Hungarian village of Beloiannisz was founded in 1950 by Greek refugees?
...that Robert Adler invented the Space Command ultrasonic television remote control?
...that John McFee and the late Keith Knudsen were the only band members of the country rock group Southern Pacific to stay for its entire eight-year run from 1983 to 1991?
...that to save weight while walking 1,000 km along the Camino de Santiago, Canadian fiddler Oliver Schroer packed a sleeping bag and clothes around his violin instead of using a case?
...that Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States?
...that the artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth (pictured) was the grandfather of Howard Wyeth, the stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan?
...that large-scale Greek settlement in what is today Bulgaria dates to the 7th century BC?
...that the novel Raptor Red, by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, is told from the perspective of an intelligent therapod dinosaur, Utahraptor?
...that Japanese author Kodō Nomura, who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan?
...that the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo?
...that Professor Józef Łukaszewicz took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia?
...that the Old Sycamore Hospital (pictured), founded in 1899, was designed and funded by the first female doctor in Sycamore, Illinois?
...that the Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset?
...that the venomous snake used for murder in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is most likely the Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids?
...that according to the framework interpretation of Genesis Chapter One, the first three days of creation are poetically reflected in the last three days of creation?
...that the website of the rock magazine Rock Street Journal has a database of over a thousand South Asian rock bands?
...that Hurricane Wilma set records for the lowest recorded pressure and the smallest eye of any Atlantic hurricane?
...that an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that were accidentally been made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning?
...that the potential for the production of renewable energy in Scotland (5 MW wind turbine pictured) includes up to 25% of the EU’s capacity for both wind and tidal power generation?
...that although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov, none of her work has been published in English?
...that the Polish manoeuvre in the Battle of Koziatyn in 1920 is an example of a blitzkrieg-like offensive before the advent of tank warfare?
...that the bulk of Bulgarians in Hungary descend from gardeners and other professionals who settled in the country prior to World War I?
...that Eric Jansson led a pietist sect of Swedish immigrants to Bishop Hill, Illinois in 1846, where they founded a collective religious colony?
...that Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?
...that Charles Dickens composed the epitaph for Charles Irving Thornton despite never having met the dead child or his family?
...that John de Ralston, the chaplain of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld and helped to arrange the marriage of King James II of Scotland to Mary of Gueldres?
...that although the series 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + · · · is ordinarily said to diverge to infinity, there is at least one generally useful method that gives its sum as −1?
...that Ivan Ray Tannehill ruled out weather balloons as the cause of a rash of UFO sightings, which included the Roswell UFO incident, seen during the summer of 1947?
...that a discharge petition can force a bill to be considered by the United States House of Representatives if the leadership tries to suppress it?
...that children as young as three were employed as hurriers at British coal mines?
...that Šárka Záhrobská (pictured) was the first Czech alpine skier to win a medal in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships?
...that Robert Coleman, owner of several iron furnaces, was Pennsylvania's first millionaire?
...that the Vorontsovsky Palace in Ukraine was designed by the English architect Edward Blore?
...that the World War II Italian submarine Cappellini was in all three major Axis navies, before being captured by the U.S. Navy?
...that the Australian Test cricketer "Ranji" Hordern played for Philadelphia while studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania?
...that Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India?
...that the comic strip Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper is said to be the first comic to consistently use speech balloons, and was the first North American comic to be adapted into a movie?
...that Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets American college basketball player Thaddeus Young (pictured) was a McDonald's All-American and graduated high school with a 4.3 grade point average?
...that the three-day S.S. California strike in 1936 triggered a wave of strikes by merchant seamen and led to the founding of the National Maritime Union?
...that the Russian Fascist Party was at one point the most influential Russian emigre group in Manchukuo?
...that the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built very rapidly in 1855 enabling heavy ammunition to be transported to the Allied troops to end the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War?
...that the view that Jesus and John were lovers, considered a blasphemy, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
...that Sir Edwin Lutyens included a landscaped circular depression in his design for the Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (pictured) in Flanders, to evoke the mine craters that once surrounded it?
...that the United States Department of Agriculture expects the boll weevil to be eradicated by 2009 as a result of its Boll Weevil Eradication Program?
...that in penny gaffs, theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England, the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached?
...that Nabisco's bakery in Chicago Lawn was the biggest in the world when it opened in 1941?
...that the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts created the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, a four-foot-wide cheese wheel, to honor Thomas Jefferson following his Presidential electoral victory?
...that poverty in France went down by 60% from 1970 to 2001, despite an increase in poverty among the workforce?
...that the term "stay the course" was dropped by United States President George W. Bush two weeks before the 2006 midterm elections?
...that the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
...that after one group he founded was banned, the neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen began a policy of regularly starting up new organizations in order to confuse the authorities?
...that the Broadway opening of the musical Wildcat had to be postponed, because the trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded as a result of a major blizzard?
...that from 1897 until his retirement in 1908, American cricketer John Lester led the batting averages of the Philadelphians?
...that English theatre director Steven Pimlott directed a wide variety of performances from popular musicals, through avant garde theatre and Shakespeare, to opera?
...that Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the western hemisphere?
...that the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?
...that Hurricane Able of 1951 was the strongest hurricane to form outside of the Atlantic hurricane season?
...that Sulejman Talović, who went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina?
...that Peter Böhler and other Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania?
...that a fluidized bed reactor can be used in the creation of fuel, rubber, vinyl chloride, polyethylene, and styrenes?
...that Wye Valley Brewery’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire-grown hops, but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland?
...that in Islamic law, a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?
...that Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?
...that Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?
...that Ice-minus bacteria, a variant of genus Pseudomonas, are useful in agriculture, because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?
...that Rembrandt collected the works of Hercules Seghers (example pictured) and partially reworked two of his works?
...that Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius?
...that Joseph Legros, who first performed in 1764, was the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra until his retirement in 1783?
...that Archbishop Anthony Forbes Moreton Clavier was ordained as a priest by five different churches in five years?
...that New York's "Timothy's Law" mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?
...that England's cricket selectors picked "coloured" Basil D'Oliveira to replaced the injured Tom Cartwright for the tour to South Africa in 1968-69, triggering the cancellation of the tour and leading to the exclusion of the South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid was abolished in 1991?
...that Eldon Hill (quarry pictured) in the Peak District, England lost much of its area through limestone quarrying between 1950 and 1999?
...that Kazimierz Pelczar, a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre?
...that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida?
...that the non-fiction book Inside Scientology, published in 1972 by Olympia Press, was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials?
...that during the 100 point game, Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match?
...that Thomas Vose Daily resigned his position as Archbishop of Brooklyn one week after being criticized by the Massachusetts attorney general in a report on the recent Roman Catholic sex abuse cases?
...that American college basketball player Javaris Crittenton is projected by major media outlets such as ESPN to be a potential first round draft pick in the 2007 NBA Draft?
...that a planning application for a 42-story building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton, England, was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate?
...that Dallas Theological Seminary, a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey, has been in operation since 1924?
...that the Mifflin Street Block Party, which attracted around 20,000 participants in 2005, began as a street dance in protest against the Vietnam War?
...that archaeologists at the El Manatí Olmec site have not only found the earliest rubber balls yet discovered and the earliest wooden artifacts in Mexico, but also the skeletons, femurs, and crania of human infants?
...that Old Walton Bridge was the subject of a painting by Canaletto in which he included an image of himself painting?
...that a general contractor makes submittals which are required by the architect and engineer for verification that correct products will be installed in a construction project?
...that the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide, the first factory custom motorcycle, used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks?
...that the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?
...that Jamestown Rediscovery is an ongoing archaeological project of the APVA which discovered the long-lost remains of the first fort built by the settlers at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony?
...that retired Seventh United States Army General Frederick Kroesen survived an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket attack by the Red Army Faction?
...that the Great Western Railway's Cornish Riviera Express (pictured) was named following a public competition in The Railway Magazine?
...that one method of torture used by the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights?
...that the Bronx, New York, farmhouse which belonged to Isaac Varian, mayor of New York City in 1839-41, currently houses the Museum of Bronx History?
...that Brian Williams was one of three Welsh farmers in the "farming" front row at Neath RFC?
...that Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?
...that grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs?
...that Aaron Clark (pictured) was the only Whig Party candidate ever elected mayor of New York City?
...that approximately 10,000 young Germans known as the Ritchie Boys served in the United States Army in World War II helping conduct psychological warfare against Nazi Germany?
...that Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
...that Hurricane Sergio in 2006 was the strongest Pacific hurricane in the month of November on record?
...that Blackadder Goes Forth, the final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder, is noted for its sensitive depiction of World War I trench warfare and was placed 16th in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute?
...that the Australian serial murder Catherine Birnie’s insanity is believed to have been caused by the death of her son?
...that Isidore van Kinsbergen had to dig and to clean for four months before he could take the first picture of the 9th century Indonesian Buddhist monument of Borobudur (pictured) in 1873 ?
...that the San Bruno Creek Trail provides a key link in the San Francisco Bay perimeter trail, but a two mile detour inland is required?
...that the town of Sayram in Kazakhstan has earned the nickname "Little Uzbekistan" because of its large Uzbek population?
...that Lyman Reed Blake devised a sewing machine for sewing the sole to the vamp of the shoe?
...that French Major General René Cogny, who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War, was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
...that the Pianta Grande di Roma by Giambattista Nolli of 1748 was still being used in urban planning in Rome down to the 1970s?
...that Mooney Mooney Bridge (pictured) is the highest road bridge in the southern hemisphere?
...that besides founding Phi Tau Sigma, Guy Livingston was also responsible for developing a sanitation certification program for foodservice managers that was later adopted by the federal, state, and local governments in the United States?
...that kissing the statue Il Gobbo di Rialto marked the conclusion of a traditional Venetian punishment in which petty criminals were forced to run naked through the streets from Piazza San Marco?
...that New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks in 1905-6?
...that the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations?
...that Pinchas Rosen, Israel's first Minister of Justice, served in the German army during World War I?
...that the original Act of Independence of Lithuania (pictured), signed on February 16, 1918, has been lost since the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania in 1940?
...that the subtropical ridge helps steer tropical cyclones?
...that the Old Admiralty House, a national monument in Singapore, was used by the British Armed Forces for strategic planning during World War II?
...that robotic jockeys are used in camel racing events in Qatar in an effort to phase out the widespread use of forced child labor in the races?
...over 250,000 pieces of 15th century Vietnamese pottery were recovered from the Hoi An Wreck over a four year period from 1996, at a cost of USD 14 million?
...that British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins's promise in November 1962 to "do something" about the BBC programme That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan?